The studies involved injecting old mice with blood or plasma from younger mice, or in one case, surgically connecting the circulatory systems of both young and old mice. In all three cases the mice exhibited several benefits from receiving the young blood, including increased endurance, memory and grip strength.

Scientists at Harvard believe it may be a protein called GDF11 that could in part be responsible for the anti-aging effects. In the future, it's possible that this protein could be isolated to treat Alzheimer's and other age-related ailments.

The Telegraph reports that human trials using the so-called "vampire therapy" method could begin within the next three years.

Movie swim queen Esther Williams learned to water ski for her role as a fictional Cypress Gardens headliner in the 1953 musical "Easy to Love." In an early scene, she dons a frothy "Southern Belle" frock to pose for visitors' snapshots. Gardens founder Dick Pope Sr. himself, cast as a camera-carrying...